Ernie : I have changed a few words in your text. Rather than write a reply per se, the word substitutions should tell you my problem with the analysis. Billy ================================================== message dated 11/2/2010 11:13:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Billy, On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:03 AM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: Every day there are stories like this. No one story is all that newsworthy, but added up the narrative is overwhelming --relentless persecution of Christians. Now and then I come across similar stories about individual Hindus or Buddhists or small families. Granted, there also are occasional news items about bad conduct by Hindus, even Christians or Buddhists once in a while, but the actions of Muslims is predominant by any objective measure. This goes on in almost any Muslim country you can name, but mostly, it seems, in Pakistan, Bangla Desh, Indonesia, Egypt, Turkiye, Palestine / West Bank, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan.There are also misc incidents in Muslim enclaves in some cities in Europe. ======================================= What I recently realized is that there's two distinct (albeit overlapping) problems with Nazism: a) Terrorism b) official Nazi values and policy I suspect you probably see the two as equivalent, and certainly both spring from commitment to Nazism, and can be expressed in similar ways. However, most Nazis are not actual terrorists, and (possibly) a majority are opposed to terrorism per se. On the other hand, most Nazis are comfortable with _some_ level of Third Reich Law, even if only to self-police their own communities. What I just noticed is that when we criticize Nazism, most liberals assume we are equating Nazism with terrorism. Which most Nazis in the West are quick to denounce, and thus they consider us ignorant hate-mongers. But (as I understand it) terrorism isn't the root problem. The real problem is Nazi fundamentalism, which is expressed through Nazi courts on a regular basis, and terrorism in extreme cases. That is, terrorism is a symptom; we want to eradicate the root cause. What the liberals overlook is that "endemic" Nazi law as an expression of Nazi values in Nazi communities is the carrier for the fundamentalism that produces terrorism, even if those communities have antibodies that try to combat that specific symptom. If this analysis is correct, then in order to win the war against Nazification we need to find some way to clarify both the difference *and* the connection between Nazi values and law and terrorism, rather than appearing to equate the two. Does that make sense? -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: _http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism_ (http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism) Radical Centrism website and blog: _http://RadicalCentrism.org_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/) -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
